Rein-holder.



. PATENTED MAR. 3, 1903. B. A. SMITH.

REIN HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED D30. 16, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

Witmom awe/WM V 92 1% amufiaj a plan showing also one of the clamping-cylinders in horizontal section.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BURT A. SMITH, or TACOMA, WASHINGTON.

RElN-H OLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 721,754, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed December 16, 1902. Serial No. 135,451. (No model.)

To a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BURT A. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tacoma, in the county of Pierce and State of Washington, have invented a new and useful Rein- Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for holding reins in which the reins are clamped to the dashboard or other part of the vehicle; and the objects of my invention are to simplify and cheapen the device from being removed from the clamp except by firstpulling the reins, and thus loosening the clamp. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of the holder through the clamping-cylinder, and Fig. 2 is Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout both views.

Thebase-plate A is fastened, by means of screws, clamps, or other suitable devices, to

i the vehicle and is provided with two projections B on its upper side, through which pass the pivot-bolts O, which fasten the rollers or cylinders D to the plate A. These rollers do not touch plate A, but rest on the projections B and turn about the pivots O.

The rollers D are cylindrical in shape and are mounted eccentrically on the pivot 0. Their cylindrical sides are smooththat is,

.the clamp is in its closed position, as shown in the drawings.

The position of the projections B is such that if the cylinders were separately swung about the pivot 0 they wouldqpass over the line midway between the projections B. The

,reins.

stops Fare placed to prevent the cylinders C from rotating beyond the above midway line.

The springs G are wound around the projections B, one end passing through a hole in the plate A and the other end passing through The reinsHar-e pulled in the direction oppoand to provide means to preventthereins' site to the arrow in Fig. 2that is, away from the horseuntilthey are almost as tight as it is desired to leave them. Then they are placed so that they press against the rims E between the two cylinders D and are then pulled tighter. This motion draws the cylinders back and separates them, so that the reins H are placed between them and are dropped. The tension on the horse side now pulls the reins H in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2 and draws the cylinders D with them, thus closing the space between them and firmly clamping the reins. The harder the horse pulls the firmer the clamp holds the reins to slip upward; but the rims E prevent their getting out from the clamp.

I am aware that prior to my invention rein- -holders have been made with eccentricallymounted cylinders.

What I claim, therefore, as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a rein-holder, the combination of a baseplate two projections thereon adapted to support the cylinders, pivots attached to said proj ections, two cylinders eccentrically mounted on said pivots, and having smooth sides, rims projecting over said sides, springs adapted to turn the cylinders, and stops adapted to limit the motion thereof, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' BURT A. SMITH.

Witnesses:

S. B. ELDER, GEO. W. FOWLER.

Sometimes there is a tendency for the 

